News: conferences, events and seminars
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Latest events . . .
British Academy Summer Showcase: full programme announced
The Vulnerable Legal Subject and Responsive Law, online VSR event
Lessons of Resilience and Social Inclusion from the Covid-19 Pandemic, Royal Society London and online
Family Law Reform Now Network Conference: Supporting Families, University of Birmingham – call for papers
Just Transition and Environmental Justice: Principles, practice and implementation strategies for a post-oil future, University of Bradford and online – call for papers
Contextualizing Racialized Social Control in Criminology: Race and Justice Seminar Series, online from University of York
Designing for Inclusion Launch, online from Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
Lessons Learned from Current Challenges to the Rule of Law in the United States, Paul Scholten Centre and the Amsterdam Centre on the Legal Professions and Access
UKRI Open Access Policy: longform publications, webinar
SLSA events and co-sponsored events
The Vulnerable Accused in the Criminal Justice System Conference, Birmingham
Fantasy Legal Exhibitions, London: call for participants
Prisoner Rights – Time for a rethink?, University of Liverpool
Socio-Legal Approaches to Protecting Athletes from Financial and Physical Harm: Challenges, reflections and solutions, Manchester Metropolitan University
2023
May
Legal History, Literature and the Arts: call for papers
Date: 26 May 2032
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
See website for details.
Challenges and Prospects for the Chagos Archipelago
Date: 26 May 2023
Venue: University of Worcester and online
Organised by Laura Jeffrey, University of Edinburgh, and Chris Monaghan, University of Worcester. See announcement for details.
Alice Margaria on Registering Births: What's care got to do with it?
Date: 26 May 2023
Venue: online from Minerva LAW Network
See website for details of this free event.
Lessons Learned from Current Challenges to the Rule of Law in the United States
Date: 30 May 2023
Venue: Paul Scholten Centre and the Amsterdam Centre on the Legal Professions and Access
Speaker: Professor Brian Z Tamanaha
See website for details.
Law and Society Association Graduate Student & Early Career Workshop
Date: 31 May 2023
Venue: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Applications are invited for this workshop convening immediately preceding the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting. See website for details.
June
The Future of Parole: Ideas, institutions and practices
Dates: 1–2 June 2023
Venue: IISL, Oñati, Spain
See website for details.
LSA Annual Meeting 2023
Dates: 1–4 June 2023
Venue: Caribe Hilton, San Juan, Puerto Rico
See website for details.
Lessons of Resilience and Social Inclusion from the Covid-19 Pandemic
Date: 1–2 June 2023
Venue: Royal Society, Carlton House Terrace, London
See website for details of this British Academy event.
Global South Network Second Guest Lecture: Reinforcing Democratic Values Through Online Hearings – the Maldives Experience
Date: 5 June 2023
Venue: online
Speaker: Honourable Dr Azmiralda Zahir, Justice of the Supreme Court of Maldives
See website for details of this free event.
Academy of Social Sciences 24th AGM and 2023 Annual Lecture
Date: 5 June 2023
Venue: The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London
Speaker: Professor Lucie Cluver
See website for details.
Post-Brexit Governance of the United Kingdom’s Territorial Constitution
Date: 6 June 2023
Venue: Liverpool and online
See announcement for details.
The Vulnerable Legal Subject and Responsive Law
Date: 7 June 2023
Venue: online VSR event
See website for details.
Access to Justice in the South West 2023: Responding to crisis
Date: 8 June 2023
Venue: Reed Hall, University of Exeter
See website for details of this Public Law Project event.
The Future of Housing: Resilient property perspectives and sustainable solutions
Dates: 8–9 June
Venue: IISL, Oñati, Spain
See website for details.
Socio-Legal Approaches to Protecting Athletes from Financial and Physical Harm: Challenges, reflections and solutions
Date: 9 June 2023
Venue: Manchester Law School, Manchester Metropolitan University
See website for details. This event is supported throught the SLSA Seminar Competition.
The Treatment of Immigrants in the European Court of Human Rights RESCHEDULED
Date: 12 June 2023
Venue: Moot Court, University of Sheffield School of Law, and online
Author meets Reader event at the Centre for Criminological Research with Dr Amanda Spalding. See website for details.
Oxford Centre: Annual Lecture 2023, Wolfson College
Date: 13 June 2023
Venue: Wolfson College, Oxford, 5pm–6.30pm
Theme: Possession Island: Queering Art, Queering Law
Guest Speaker: Professor Des Manderson, ANU College of Law & College of Arts and Social Sciences
All welcome, but booking is necessary. Drinks will be served afterwards. See website for details.
One-day Symposium on Sexuality, Nationality and Asylum: The New Plan for Immigration
Date: 14 June 2023
Venue: Oxford Brookes University
Organisers: Dr Alex Powell, Lecturer in Law, Oxford Brookes University with the support of The Fundamental Rights and Equality Research Group, the Critical Legal Perspectives on Law, Society, Gender and Diversity research Group, and the Migration and Refugees Research Network, all at Oxford Brookes University. See announcement for details.
Democracy in Crisis? Perspectives on democracy, government and participatory politics in both domestic and international legal contexts
Date: 14 June 2023
Venue: The Athenaeum, Liverpool
See website for details and registration for this free event hosted by the Centre for the Study of Law in Theory & Practice (LTAP), Liverpool John Moores University
Designing for Inclusion Launch
Date: 15 June 2023
Venue: online from Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
See announcement and website for details.
UKRI Open Access Policy: longform publications
Date: 15 June 2023
Venue: UKRI webinar
See webpage for details and registration.
Legal Epistemic Authority in a Sociological and Comparative Perspective
Dates: 15–16 June 2023
Venue: IISL, Oñati, Spain
See website for details.
CRoLEV Summer School and Research Workshops: call for participants
Dates: 15–16 June 2023
Venue: UCLAN Cuprus Campus and online.
See website for details. Deadline to apply: 5 June 2023.
British Academy Summer Showcase
Date: 17 June 2023
Venue: Carlton House Terrace, London
See website for full programme. You can reserve a place at this free event or drop in on the day.
Law in Context Early Career Workshop
Dates: 19–20 June 2023
Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Wolfson College Oxford
See announcement for full details.
Conceptualizing a Decolonizing Rule of Law for Animals
Date: 21 June 2023
Venue: School of Law and Social Justice Building, University of Liverpool
See website for details.
Adversarialism, Participation and Voice in the Criminal Process: International and Comparative Perspectives
Dates: 22–23 June 2023
Venue: School of Law, University of Limerick, Ireland
See annnouncement and website for details.
Constitutionalism and Political Economy: New trajectories and opportunities for socio-legal scholarship
Dates: 22–23 June 2023
Venue: IISL, Oñati, Spain
See website for details.
ISA World Congress of Sociology: Session on Transnational Queer Politics and Human Rights
Dates: 25 June–1 July 2023
Venue: Melbourne, Australia
See website for details.
Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference
Dates: 27–30 June 2023
Venue: Oxford Brookes University
See website for details.
Healthcare Law and Regulation Unit (HLRU) Public Lecture given by Professor Sally Sheldon
Date: 28 June 2023
Venue: School of Law and Social Justice Building, University of Liverpool
See website for details.
9th Annual International Weight Stigma Conference
Dates: 28–29 June 2023
Venue: Denver, Colorado, USA
See website for details. There is a rolling deadline for the call for posters.
WG Hart Workshop 2023: Theorists in company law
Dates: 29–30 June 2022
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
See website for details.
Global South Network Third Guest Lecture: Mexican Supreme Court of Justice – current goals and challenges
Date: 29 June 2023
Venue: online
Speaker: Ramón Cossío, Former Justice Mexican Supreme Court
See website for details of this free event.
Contextualizing Racialized Social Control in Criminology: Race and Justice Seminar Series
Date: 29 June 2023
Venue: online from University of York
See website for details.
Persistent Imbalances in International Trade and the Prospects for Sustainable Development: Focus on the developing countries: call for papers extended
Dates: 30 June–1 July 2023
Venue: University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
See website for details. The deadline for the abstract submission was 30 April 2023, but the selection is continuing on a rolling basis. If you are interested in applying, please contact the organizers as soon as possible. Applications can be still submitted via e-mail to both the following addresses: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
July
Sixth Tax Policy Conference
Dates: 3–4 July 2023
Venue: Centre for Tax Law, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
See website for details.
International Conference 'Combating Gender-based Violence'
Dates: 3–6 July 2023
Venue: Lille University, France
See announcement for Panel 1 and Panel 2 for details.
VSR Yearly Conference 2023: The next generation
Date: 6–7 July 2023
Venue: University of Amsterdam
See website and announcement for details.
Family Justice and Mental Incapacity
Dates: 6–7 July 2023
Venue: IISL, Oñati, Spain
See website for details.
Authoritarianism and Genocide: Narratives of exclusion
Dates: 10–14 July 2023
Venue: Barcelona, Spain
This is the 16th Biennial Meeting of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. See website for details.
Law and Humanities Roundtable 2023
Date: 14 July 2023
Venue: online and University of Verona
See announcement for details.
Fantasy Legal Exhibitions
Dates: 18–19 July 2023
Venues: British Museum, Postal Museum, Middle Temple and IALS, London
See announcement for details. This event is supported throught the SLSA Seminar Competition.
Prisoner rights – Time for a rethink?, University of Liverpool
Date: 26 July 2023
Venue: School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool
See website for details. This event is supported throught the SLSA Seminar Competition.
Ninth Biennial Conference on Applied Legal Storytelling
Dates: 26–28 July 2023
Venue: City Law School, University of London
See announcement for details.
Just Transition and Environmental Justice: Principles, practice and implementation strategies for a post-oil future – call for papers
Dates: 26–28 July 2023
Venue: University of Bradford and online
See announcement, invitation and website for details. Call closes: 8 June 2023.
Book Launch: Neuroscientific Perspectives of Vulnerable Defendants in the Courtroom by Hannah Wishart and Colleen M Berryessa
Date: 28 July 2023
Venue: online from University of Sunderland
See website for details.
August
Institute for Peace & Dialogue: 13th Summer Academy – call for participants
Dates: 7–21 August 2023
Venue: Basel, Switzerland
See website for detalis. Closing date for late applications: 30 June 2023.
RCSL Annual Meeting: Law, society and digital pasts, presents and futures
Dates: 30 August–1 September 2023
Venue: Lund, Sweden
Organised by the Sociology of Law Department, Lund University. See website and poster for details.
Working Group on the Sociology of Constitutions, RCSL Annual Meeting
Dates: 30 August–1 September 2023
Venue: Lund, Sweden
See announcement for details.
September
Family Law Reform Now Network Conference: Supporting Families – call for papers
Date: 1 September 2023
Venue: University of Birmingham
See announcement for details. Call closes: 3 July 2023.
Celebrating Women in Legal History: The lives and legacies of early women legal historians
Date: 1 September 2023
Venue: University of Liverpool School of Law and Social Justice
See attachment for details.
Tax Research Network Conference 2023
Venue: Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
See website for details.
International Creative Research Methods Conference
Dates: 11–12 September 2023
Venue: Manchester and online
See announcement for details.
Pregnancy and the Law: call for papers
Date: 13 September 2023
Venue: Law School, University of Southampton and online
See announcement for details. Closing date for submission of abstracts: 1 June 2023.
The Vulnerable Accused in the Criminal Justice System Conference
Dates: 13–14 September 2023
Venue: University of Birmingham
Keynote speaker: Professor Penny Cooper
See website for details. This event is supported through the SLSA Seminar Fund.
Sixth Annual Conference of the Partnership, LLP and LLC Law Forum: call for papers
Date: 14 September 2023
Venue: Nottingham Trent University
See announcement for details. Call closes: 26 May 2023.
IVR Japan International Conference 2023
Date: 16–18 September 2023
Venue: Chiba University, Japan
See website for details.
2023 COI congress: Just institutional approaches to conflict prevention and resolution
Dates: 28–29 September 2023
Venue: Utrecht University
See website for details.
October
SAFI Conference on Punishment
Dates: 5–7 October 2023
Venue: Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris
See website for details.
International Access to Justice Forum 2023: call for papers
Dates: 11–13 October 2023
Venue: University of California Irvine
Hosted by UCI Law’s Initiative for Inclusive Civil Justice and the Victoria Law Foundation. See announcement for details. Closing date: 31 May 2023.
Argumentation 2023: call for papers
Date: 20 October 2023
Venue: Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia
Theme: Performativity in law
See announcement and website for for details. Closing date: 31 July 2023.
Socio-Legal Journals Global South Writing Workshops 2023–2025: Workshop 1 – call for papers coming soon
Dates: 26–27 October 2023
Venues: Kabarak Law School, Kenya, Ghana Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Accra, and online
See poster and announcement for full details.
November
AHRC Being Human Festival 2023: call for applications
Dates: 9–18 November 2023
Venues: UK-wide
See website for details. Closing dates vary.
Sexual Autonomy, Protection and Identity in Care Settings
Date: 10 November 2023
Venue: Northumbria Law School (with some online sessions)
See announcement for details. Registration opens in September – save the date.
December
LSAANZ 2023: call for papers
Dates: 6–8 December 2023
Venue: University of Technology, Sydney
Theme: Voice, Resistance, and Repair: Law and living together
See website for details. Call closes: 25 August 2023.
2024
IVR World Congress 2024
Date: tbc
Venue: Seoul, Republic of Korea
Theme: The Rule of Law, Justice and the Future of Democracy
See announcement. Further details will be published in due course.
January
The Cultural Techniques of Law – call for papers
Dates: 17–19 January 2024
Venue: University of Helsinki, Finland
See website for details. Call closes:16 June 2023.